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Come embroider alongside admired fabric designer Anna Maria Horner

Admired for her luminous palette and innovative patterns, Anna Maria's brand means color and inspiration in the form of fabric, sewing patterns, needlework patterns, books, and friendly instruction. Now, her legion of fans will thrill to the publication of a brand-new addition to her growing library.

Anna Maria's Needleworks Notebook gives readers 24 original motifs in a variety of embroidery types, from gridwork to crewel and fine detailed handwork. Readers will long to make projects to embellish their homes and wardrobes.

Anna Maria presents each motif in a warm personal notebook-style with inspiration adn advice to turn each motif into a treasured finished piece
Offers practical instruction in gridwork, traditional embroidery and crewel, and precise instruction to complete fine detail work
Vivid full-color photographs invite you into the creative process

Whether you're a beginner or a veteran, the 24 needlework motifs in this beautiful book will transform your home and wardrobe into a collection of unique treasures.

The Story of My Stitches 8

How to Use this Book 12

Cross Stitch 24

Menagerie at Midnight 28

Four Tiles Collection 31

Border Beauties 34

AlphaCute 41

Name That Kid 43

Crossing the Line 46

Cross Stitch 24

Menagerie at Midnight 28

Four Tiles Collection 31

Border Beauties 34

AlphaCute 41

Name That Kid 43

Crossing the Line 46

Embroidery 78

Coloring Book Collection 86

Daylight Fading 89

Brace Yourself 92

Tracing Blossoms 96

Loves Me Bouquet 99

Crewel 104

Wild at Heart 110

Letters Home 112

Winter Wool 115

Garden Geometry 118

Finishing 121

Patterns 125

Index 159

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	05 septembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781118365298
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	12 Mo

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Anna Maria’s Needleworks Notebook
Anna Maria’s Needleworks Notebook
ANNA MARIA HORNER

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Credits
SENIOR EDITOR
Roxane Cerda
SENIOR PROJECT EDITOR
Donna Wright
COPY EDITOR
Marylouise Wiack
EDITORIAL MANAGER
Christina Stambaugh
VICE PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER
Cindy Kitchel
VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER
Kathy Nebenhaus
INTERIOR DESIGN
Tai Blanche
COVER DESIGN
Susan Olinsky
PHOTOGRAPHY
Anna Maria Horner

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This book is dedicated to my talented grandmothers, Anna Ruth Coble and Eleni Demacopoulos, who both lived long enough to see their gifts manifested in my efforts. Their voices live within me each time I pick up needle and thread. Their spirits are present in the motion blur of my hand working every day. I pray to leave even a fraction of that inspiration to my own family.
Acknowledgments
As with any project that ends up in the hands of many, it took a lot of people to make this book possible. My editors, Roxane Cerda and Donna Wright, have been so patient and gracious in both their willingness and support in letting me try a different way of making a book. They, together with my publisher, Cindy Kitchel, have worked so hard to ensure my vision for this project rests at the center of every small goal along the way. I owe a great deal to their trust in me and their friendship.
Pierrette Abegg, my assistant, has been a sweet, solidifying source in this project as well as countless others. I am thankful for her willingness to help with every major and minor task, even if I doubled them out of indecisiveness. Her effervescent father, Jimmy Abegg, is responsible for the cover photos and many good laughs. His lovely photography is both accomplished and appreciated.
Photographing the gorgeous faces of my friends and family in this book allowed me to share the beauty and love that I get to experience every day of my life with a lucky bunch of readers. It has been an honor to include you all on these pages. Thanked in order of appearance are: Eleni Horner, Isabela Horner, Roman Horner, Kelly Gunter, Naomi Daniel, Anna Johnson, Sierra Ragazzo, Juliana Horner, and Lily Katsaitis. I also appreciate the assistance of Pierrette Abegg and Anna Johnson for several photographs.
Thank you to my husband, Jeff, and my children, Juliana, Nicoloas, Joseph, Isabela, Eleni, and Roman. All of you are a source of inspiration, confidence, and joy for me, whether I am stitching, writing, drawing, or dreaming. Thank you for giving me time and encouragement to seek out my own creative happiness. I love you.
And finally to my mom and dad, Mary Lynn and Eleftherios Demacopoulos: Thank you for making sure that all of the beauty that has surrounded you in your lives would also surround me. I love you both dearly.
{ CONTENTS }
The Story of My Stitches
How to Use this Book
Grid Works

Cross Stitch
Menagerie at Midnight
Four Tiles Collection
Border Beauties
AlphaCute
Name That Kid
Crossing the Line
Needlepoint
Nouveau Needle Cushion
Star-Crossed Love
Hand-Painted Canvas
Free Works

Embroidery
Coloring Book Collection
Daylight Fading
Brace Yourself
Tracing Blossoms
Loves Me Bouquet
Crewel
Wild at Heart
Letters Home
Winter Wool
Garden Geometry
Finishing
Patterns
Index
The Story of My Stitches
My parents would have made the perfect Peace Corps couple. I remember hearing this phrase in my house long before I learned of the actual existence or purpose of the Peace Corps. Both were raised in a farming community—my father in the midst of vineyards in southern Greece, and my mother, the daughter of a veterinarian in a tiny town in northern Indiana. Through many disciplines like crochet, knitting, loomed brocade, embroidery, cross stitch, and needlepoint, each of my grandmothers—on opposite sides of the world—added layers of beauty to their homes with handworked items. So in addition to witnessing and taking part in the daily hard work of maintaining their family’s livelihood, my parents were also surrounded by everyday works of refined beauty. While I’m sure they never consciously realized it, it was their absorption of this beauty and their eventual translation of it in their own family that would have everything to do with my own interests and livelihood. My father became a civil engineer by trade, and my mother a nurse. In the midst of raising my brother, sister, and me, they also endeavored to design, build, paint, repair, sew, mend, hem, stitch, and knit as much of our house together as time and finances would allow.

My baby bedding stitched by my mother
Though they worked with their own hands (and still do) to create or fortify their home with items that served some necessity, I was most drawn to those works that weren’t necessary at all. Surely our walls would have stood even if my father hadn’t made beautiful paintings to hang on them. Yet I could describe to you in minute detail how his bold and colorful strokes of oil paint rendered the disturbed water beside a gondola with a long ore at the center of that swirl in a scene framed in our living room. Surely my baby bed sheet and pillowcase would have been just as warm without the elaboration of Dumbo and the whole circus cross stitched across each of them. Yet I have explicit memories of how those bumpy stitches felt under my fingertips and of rubbing them across my lips to drift into sleep. That blanket lived alongside me until I had rubbed out every sing